Open AccessGUIDELINES FOR RESEARCH PRACTICE IN AUSTRALIA: NHMRC STATEMENT & PROFESSIONAL CODES
Author(s) -
Berglund Catherine A.,
McNeill Paul M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
community health studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 0314-9021
DOI - 10.1111/j.1753-6405.1989.tb00188.x
Subject(s) - statement (logic) , beneficence , confidentiality , ethical code , informed consent , economic justice , medicine , medical education , family medicine , engineering ethics , alternative medicine , political science , law , pathology , engineering , autonomy
The guidelines for research practice with human participants offered in the National Health and Medical Research Council's ‘Statement on Human Experimentation and Supplementary Notes’ and a number of professions' Codes of Ethics were examined in terms of the principles of beneficence, respect for persons and justice. Clear differences emerged between the Professional Codes and the NHMRC Statement, particularly in the areas of confidentiality, reporting of research results and further use of data. The question of whether the NHMRC Statement is sufficiently comprehensive to guide research in many fields is considered.